Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada has revealed that blood "factors heavily" in the X-Men's future in the wake of the book's forthcoming Second Coming storyline.

Marvel recently unveiled a teaser poster which featured a blood-splattered X-Men logo on a yellow background, alongside the words "We are the X-Men".

Quesada told CBR: "The blood splatter actually has two meanings.

"The first can be found in Second Coming - a story that will strengthen the bond that unites them. Well, those who survive it, anyway.

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"The second, well, it has to do with the X-Books post-Second Coming and we'll be announcing more very soon. Blood factors heavily into the X-Men's future."

He also said that both Second Coming and event series Siege would reshape the X-Universe.

Quesada added: "In Second Coming several years' worth of X-Men stories are coming to a climax when Hope, the so-called Messiah Child, finally returns to the present, triggering the biggest threat that the mutant race has ever faced."